ARCTIC PROJECT CLUSTERING WHAT’S SO SPECIAL WITH THE ARCTIC?

NILS ARNE JOHNSEN ARCTIC DIRECTOR RAMBOLL

RAMBOLL’S EXPERIENCE

ARCTIC CHALLENGES

o Climate

o Environment

o Society

CLIMATIC CHALLENGES

- Cold temperatures

- Strong polar wind

- Snow and ice

- Heavy precipitation

- Landslides

- Avalanches

CLIMATIC CHALLENGES

• Framework for technology:

o Transport

o Buildings

o Industry

o Mining

o Energy

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ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES

- Vulnerability

- Risk

- Nature Values

ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES

• Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)

• Offshore and onshore

• Arctic Sustainable Cities

• Water and Waste Management

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SOCIETAL CHALLENGES

- Remote areas

- Sparsely populated

- Lack of expertise

- Vulnerability

- Indigenous people

- Corporate challenges

- Authority and Governmental

expectations and requirements

SOCIETAL CHALLENGES

• Social Impact Assessment (SIA)

• Authority Management and Relations

• Stakeholders Relations and engagement

• Social economic feasibility analysis

• Financial cooperation private-public

• Local content & Benefit sharing

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BARENTS REGION

• Since 1993

NORDKALOTTEN / CAP OF THE NORTH

• Nordkalottrådet / Cap of the North Council since 1967

TORNEDALSRÅDET / TORNE COUNCIL

• Since 1987

ARCTIC DEVELOPMENT REGION

Initiative by Torne Council 2015

Arctic Smart Cities 2017

ARCTIC SCANDINAVIA

• Growth from the North 2015

• Mining

• Tourism

• Energy

• Cold climate solutions

• Arctic Cities Collaboration

WEST NORDIC COUNCIL

• Since 1987

GREENLAND - CANADA

• Several bilateral agreements, but not on joint business development

• New Greenlandic governmental export program might change this

YUKON - ALASKA

• Land locked Yukon

• Collaboration agreement since 2012

• Mining and Industrial training

BERING STRAIT

NEW SHIPPING ROUTES

• Northern Sea Route

• Significant for national transport in Russia

• Possible significant transit route Asia - Europe

• Northwest Passage

• Cruise

HIGH NORTH ATLANTIC

• Shipping lines

• Partnership Eimskip and Royal Arctic Lines 2017

• Ramboll Project 2016/17: High North Atlantic Shipping and Trade

• 2017 – High North Atlantic Development Forum

OPPORTUNITIES, SETBACKS AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES

• Lloyd’s Arctic Report 2012: 100 bn USD 2012-2021

OPPORTUNITIES, SETBACKS AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES

• Less trade and business relations with Russia

• Decline in the mining industry

• Northland

• Oil industry's withdrawal 2015-16

• Shell

• Statoil

• Alaska

• Greenland

OPPORTUNITIES, SETBACKS AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES

• Arctic Investment Protocol 2015

• Arctic Infrastructure Inventory 2017, Guggenheim Partners

• Infrastructure requirements in the Arctic region alone are expected to reach nearly $1 trillion over the next 15 years

• WWF’s Arctic Program 2016-

• Not political correct to invest in the Arctic

• Gates’ Foundation

NOT ONE ARCTIC

• Norway

• Russia

• Finland

• Sweden

• Iceland

• Greenland

• Canada

• Alaska

ARCTIC SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD MARKET

• (Smart) Technology

• Mining

• Oil & Gas

• Food

• Tourism

• Data Center

• Transport

• Telecom/broadband

• Earth-to-space

PAN-ARCTIC INDUSTRIES

All 8 Arctic countries’ Arctic regions:

- Energy

- Mining

- Tourism

- Telecom

- Engineering and design

- Financing

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- Shipping

- Fishery

RAMBOLL’S ARCTIC ACHIEVEMENTS 2016-17

Value based partnerships

- ASRC

- Pan-Arctic capacity and capability

- Norwegian Shipowners’ Association

- Vertical business development engagement project

- Maine Business Community

- Connecting equal sized business communities

- Kaisa Consulting

- Tool for international Arctic Industrial Development, possible to “go global”

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ARCT ACHIEVEMENTS From Research to Business

Business Research

2015

Academic

agreements #1 meeting

2015 2016

ARCT

Pilot

Alaska

agreement

1.8 Mill. NOK

Funding

2016

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ARCT.TEAM Advisory Board and Project Team

Karin Berentsen

FOUNDER AND CEO

ACADEMIC

RESEARCH

Nord University, University's of Tromsø and Lapland ((LOIs)

METHOD ADVISORY TEAM

Local, Indigenous, Academic, Industry and Regulatory

Cathrine Henaug, Enviromental team leader, RAMBOLL

Caren Mathis

Artic Slope Regional Corporation, ASRC, Alaska USA

Hans Petter Dahlslett

Principal consultant, DNV GL

Geir A. Andrew CEO, web-developer/system architect,

FRAMEWORKS, Arendal, Norway

Lill Bente Hollstedt Market Specialist, SURFSIDE AS, Norway

Nils Arne Johnsen, Artic Director (Chair)

RAMBOLL GROUP

Tero Vauraste, Vice Chair Artic Economic council and

President & CEO ARTICA SHIPPING

Børre Johan Paaske, Group Leader, Safty Risk Management

DNV-GL, Oil & Gass

Lars Kullerud, President

UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTIC, UARCTIC

Betsy Baker, Professor, VERMONT LAW SCHOOL and

UNIVIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF LAW

NGO/Native repr. (TBC)

ADVISORY BOARD

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